Chapter 426: The Manuscript I Almost Missed

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Yan Ju decided not to entangle with this guy on this kind of issue in the future. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info He looked at Wu Di's empty hands, stretched out his head and looked around, but he didn't see the sparrow, and couldn't help but feel a little comforted,

"What, you're empty-handed today? It seems that the appraisers at this gallery are very good. ”

"It's a bit level, I've only picked up one leak after watching it for so long, and I don't know whose work it is until I go back and check the information. But there's a small auction later, and it's very interesting, but I don't know if I can grab it......"

Wu Di briefly talked about the auction, Yan Ju turned his head and looked at him blankly, his face full of disbelief,

"Dante's Divine Comedy copied in Italian by the old man Sha? You can also recognize such a high-end ghost painting talisman? I'm card! This is so unscientific! At your age, even if you start learning from a young age, you may not have mastered so much knowledge, not to mention that you are actually halfway home! Honestly, what secrets do the brothers don't know? ”

Wu Di was shocked, that's right, this is his flaw! Just as he was about to speak, Yan Ju suddenly looked like he suddenly realized,

"Understood, finally understood! You kid is not a halfway monk at all, you are the killer weapon that Old Man Chang has secretly cultivated! I'll just say, how can there be such a genius born out of nowhere, and it happens to be discovered by Chang Lao? Hahahaha, I think I can go and be Sherlock Holmes! ”

After speaking, he glanced at Wu Di proudly, looked at him with a stunned look, and seemed to feel a little unpleasant, and then said:

"Even since elementary school, you kid is really perverted! I decided that I wouldn't spend it here with you, but I would first go shopping on the streets and see if I could pick up some treasures from my ancestors. If you want your kid to plow first. Then don't you let a whole locust cross the border, and there will be no grass left? ”

Wu Di finally breathed a sigh of relief, yes, this explanation is more reasonable. Long hours of study plus weird intuition, well, it's just a mess in the future! Anyway, none of these boys rushed to the master for verification.

He looked at Yan Ju, who was eager to try, smiled and waved his hand, go, go, pick up as much as you want. There's just one piece, don't pick it up and don't leave it on my head!

After countless times of picking up leaks, Wu Di has vaguely understood that those leaks are definitely not something that anyone can pick up, even if that person is more intelligent than him, it is very likely that he will return in vain!

And the culprit of this phenomenon is definitely the Book of Heaven, it is like a big magnet, everywhere it goes, it will attract a wave of treasures to come out! Otherwise, he's just lucky. It will not be eye-catching, and it is impossible to pick up so many big leaks in such a short period of time!

So, Brother Yan, it's all up to you!

There is still a quarter of an hour before the auction starts. Wu Di only had three unseen in the exhibition hall on the first floor, and in order to collect the 30 million antiques that had been contested, he decided to simply spend a day here today.

Neither he nor Sparrow will show up at the auction, but his cell phone will keep talking to the tall beauty who came from the police station. He also wants to be a predator hiding behind his back! It's a pity that this prey is a bit less enjoyable.

He didn't know the price of Shakespeare's manuscripts, but he could guess about the same. If it weren't for something like a masterpiece, such a page would not exceed 200,000 euros. And these manuscripts are not only Italian. It's a copy of Dante's poem, and the price is likely to be lower.

In other words, once the price of this thing reaches more than one million euros, it cannot be regarded as a leak. And that's likely to happen, and if you add in the gallery's possible sniping, it's probably hard to get your hands on.

After looking at a few more works, the auction began. The policewoman is worthy of being a policewoman, and her observation of the scene is different from theirs, Wu Di listened to the gentle female voice chattering on the phone,

"There are about 90 people entering the venue, and about 70 people have number plates, and judging from the expressions of most people, there are probably no more than 10 people who will actually participate in the competition......

Won't there be more than 10 people? It's terrible to have one real opponent, because no one knows if the gallery people will snipe or not, and at what price. At this time, Wu Di can be regarded as completely letting go of his mind, this thing is a strange picture, just with his ghost painting talisman, buy it back is also throw the treasure room to see the light of day, there is no better to worry about looking here, as soon as possible to make up enough bets to participate in the antique competition, go to the antique street to sweep the treasure of Huaxia! Look at the words of our ancestors, and then look at this, tsk, it's not enough to describe it!

The second exhibition room, the one where Yan Ju stayed, was read by him, and he didn't find a work worth selling, and the auction in the small hall also entered the ** unexpectedly, and ten manuscripts suspected of Shakespeare's handwriting were fried for 3 million euros!

Is it so outrageous? It's not a manuscript of his own work, and the most important thing is that it is still labeled as suspicious!

After the price went up to one million, the policewoman hadn't received instructions from Wu Di for a long time, which made her a little strange. If this were indeed Shakespeare's manuscript, it would never have been given up at this price. But if it weren't for Shakespeare's manuscript, he had gone so hard to call her over for help, except that he had a problem with his brain, and could not find a second explanation. Is he going to observe first, and then wait until the end to strike a thunderbolt?

She was able to be sent on this assignment not only because she was free, but because she had a deep knowledge of the collecting community in Europe and the West as a whole.

Few of Shakespeare's manuscripts have survived, and none of his masterpieces have survived, and none of his famous works have ever been seen. As for why this is the case, European scholars have not been able to figure it out for hundreds of years. But precisely because of this, the phenomenon has been created that Shakespeare's manuscripts are even more expensive than the works of some well-known painters, and they are more sought-after!

Last year, the British police arrested a 51-year-old thief in a northern city, and through the man, they found the manuscript of Shakespeare's earliest playbook, The First Folio, in 1623, which was extremely incomplete and about two-thirds missing, but the experts gave an estimate of more than 15 million pounds! Fifteen million pounds, more than 20 million euros, and that's still an estimate that hasn't been put up for auction!

The manuscript of the First Folio is regarded by scholars as one of the most important books in the study of English and Chinese, so it has extremely high historical and cultural value, but if these ten manuscripts are recognized as genuine, their academic value will not be weaker than that manuscript.

Dante, along with Shakespeare and Goethe, are known as the three world-class geniuses in the history of Western European literature. If it is established that Shakespeare once copied Dante's poems by hand, there are too many gossips available for research, and it is initially estimated that it can support at least three research laboratories and a dozen old professors!

"Mr. Wu, from the current point of view, the final price of the manuscript will not exceed 3.2 million, you see ......"

"It's so expensive, give it up."

So expensive? Compared to its actual value, this price is almost ten times lower, okay? She rubbed her forehead speechlessly, did she really guess correctly, this person has something wrong with his brain? I asked someone to help me so solemnly, but I haven't confirmed the authenticity of the thing......

"Mr. Wu, you mean this thing is an imitation? If it's an imitation, this price is a bit outrageous, but if it's genuine, it's possible to fetch ten times the price at a larger auction! ”

Wu Di suddenly found that he seemed to have made a mistake, he was purely empirical about the market of Shakespeare's manuscript, and he did not know the real market! Originally, it was difficult to distinguish between the real and the fake, and he should have attracted his attention at this price, but he actually missed it easily again because of his preconceptions. OK......

"That's it, I won't say the specific price, you can bid freely according to the situation on the spot, there is only one goal, take it for me!"

In the third exhibition hall, Wu Di smiled as soon as he entered the door, what should this be called? Double happiness or three sheep open Thailand?

The exhibition hall is a rectangle about three meters wide and more than twenty meters deep, and when Wu Di was still at the door, he saw an oil painting about one meter square hanging on the left wall, depicting a group of lions playing in the long grass. It doesn't matter what the content is, but the key thing is that this should be Xu Beihong's handwriting!

After a careful look at it twice, Wu Di confirmed his judgment. The lion in the painting has a slender but mighty body, and his eyes are blazing but not hostile, which is exactly what Xu Beihong understands about lions, because he believes that lions have a benevolent and kind gentlemanly style.

Xu Beihong created more than 100 oil paintings in his lifetime, but 40 of them were lost in Singapore before the liberation, which is the main reason why he did not make oil paintings in his later years.

Xu Beihong had an indissoluble bond with Singapore during his lifetime, and went to Singapore six times, the longest of which stayed for more than three years. During his time in Singapore, he created an astonishing number of paintings under the passion of propaganda against the Japanese.

When the Japanese army invaded Singapore in 1941, Xu Beihong entrusted hundreds of his works painted during the three years of Singapore, Malaysia and India, as well as other antiques and rare books, to his friends and buried them in a dry well at the Chongwen School in Singapore, including 40 oil paintings that Xu Beihong himself considered the most precious. Xu Beihong then left Singapore with 1,000 works on the last ship bound for India before the fall.

This time is the separation of human paintings, and the owner of the oil paintings did not expect that he would lose these treasures forever.

After the liberation, his descendants searched for these works through various channels, and finally learned that these works were taken out of the ancient well by his friends, and then privately divided the collection. In the decades that followed, less than a tenth of them appeared! In recent years, "The Fool Moves the Mountain" and "The Slave and the Lion", which have set auction records for Xu Beihong's paintings, are among the best of these paintings whose whereabouts were once unknown.

Wu Di suspects that this unsigned and unsigned oil painting is also one of the missing paintings, but how could it be here, and the price tag is only tens of thousands of euros? (To be continued.) )